It’s a sad fact that Bat-fans have had to live with that Warner Bros. attempted to develop a spinoff based on Michelle Pfeiffer’s awesome portrayal of Catwoman from 1992’s Batman Returns for about a decade before they eventually served up the godawful reboot of the character played by Halle Berry in 2004’s forgettable effort.

The reason we got that terrible movie was because the studio was never able to agree on a pitch for a Pfeiffer version. One of those that was considered,...